Reports came out last year that Samsung VR was working on a product code-named Odyssey, and company execs admitted that Samsung was working on higher-end VR projects. Last week, photos of what was claimed to be final product photos we posted by Twitter user Walkingcat. The images, included in this article, show what would be a high-end…
Facebook has decided to expand an existing partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education and now plans to bring virtual reality (VR) education to every public high school in the state. The original Arkansas Facebook and Techstart Partnership was announced earlier this year and entailed donating 500 VR kits to about 250 schools, educational co-ops…
According to a post on his personal blog, Eugene Wei has left Facebook. After enjoying a few Executive roles at Hulu and Flipboard, Wei joined Fb back in 2015. The post suggests that he would have left in mid-July, roughly around a few weeks after the in-house cinematic VR production team, Oculus Story Studio, was…
Stephen King’s IT, originally released in 1990 as a two-part miniseries, scared the 💩 out of pretty much everyone. This past week, it was (finally!) released as a full-length movie, and we are PSYCHED. Though technically not a “remake”, as it was never a “movie” to begin with, many people out there seem to think…
Step inside a dystopian near-future Los Angeles with Blade Runner 2049: Replicant Pursuit, coming to Gear VR on July 21! Oculus, the platform behind Samsung Mobile‘s Gear VR, partnered with Alcon Interactive Group to bring Blade Runner into VR with a trio of experiences from three different developers, including Evolve and Left 4 Dead creators Turtle…
The biggest buzz of last week was all about Facebook/Oculus‘ announcement of Pacific, a Standalone VR Headset from Oculus that would be released sometime in 2018, with a price tag of about $200 USD. A VR Headset is considered “Standalone” when it does not require any PC or Smartphone for its content delivery. In principle,…
We have all heard or read Chris Milk refer to Virtual Reality as the “Ultimate Empathy Tool” during one of his TED Talks. It seems that many were listening, such as the members of Direct Action Everywhere, an animal welfare group that has branches in 8 countries. Featured in today’s edition of The New York…
The biggest criticism on Virtual Reality is the lack of Quality content. Well, the good folks at HTC Vive are obviously working hard to help shut down the critics. This all began back in April 5th with “Vive Day“, meant to celebrate the HTC Vive’s 1st Anniversary, where the company offered a massive discount, bundles, etc. On that…
Back in September 2016, when confronted by the Media about the discovery that he had been not-so-secretly funding & supporting an Anti-Hillary Clinton campaign, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey did his best to figure skate around the questions. He was exposed for playing puppeteer to an alt-right political group in a subreddit for white supremacists, and subsequently,…
This 2017 edition of the Google I/O Conference is starting to feel like Christmas! yesterday was like Christmas Eve, today is Christmas, and tomorrow should bring all the fireworks of New Years’ Eve. Or will it be Boxing Day?! Ok, let’s get (sort of) serious here. Daydream Director of Product Management Mike Jazayeri made more…
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